Top Civilized Quotes
Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
Ida B. Wells
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
Konrad Lorenz
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Walter Lippmann
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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
Dean Inge 
72% of people like this quote
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders.
Ida B. Wells 
66% of people like this quote
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 
60% of people like this quote
I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.
Konrad Lorenz 
60% of people like this quote
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Walter Lippmann 
58% of people like this quote
Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this.
Vito Fossella 
58% of people like this quote
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 
58% of people like this quote
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.
Flora Lewis 
57% of people like this quote
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